I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.
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Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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The good ideas will survive.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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You don’t have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can’t help but make a good movie.
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One thing I don’t understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they’ll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.
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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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If I’m doing my job right, then I’m not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I’m just jotting it down.
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I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.
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L.A. is so big that if you don’t actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.
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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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